'Joe Palooka' pencil sketch drawing by Ham Fisher (5.32x8.5)

'Joe Palooka' pencil sketch drawing by Ham Fisher (5.32x8.5). The sketch is of a man wearing a suite with a hat on, smoking a cig with his hand in his pocket and was drawn at Manhattan's famous Stork Club during the early 1950's on the back of six food and drink order forms for Ben & Me & Sherry & R. Harrison. It's believe R. Harrison is the actor Rex Harrison who often frequented the Stork Club with his wife Lilli Palmer. Joe Palooka is an American comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist Ham Fisher. The strip debuted on April 19, 1930[1] and was carried at its peak by 900 newspapers. It was cancelled in 1984. The strip was adapted to a 15-minute CBS radio series, 12 feature-length films (chiefly from Monogram Pictures), nine Vitaphone film shorts, a 1954 syndicated television series (The Joe Palooka Story), comic books and merchandise, including a 1940s board game, a 1947 New Haven Clock & Watch Company wristwatch, a 1948 metal lunchbox featuring depictions of Joe, Humphrey and Little Max, and a 1946 Wheaties cereal box cut-out mask. In 1980, a mountain in Pennsylvania was named for the character.